GENERA 
THE 
OF BIRDS: 
THEIR GENERIC CHARACTERS, 
A NOTICE OF THE HABITS OF EACH GENUS, 
AND 
AN EXTENSIVE LIST OF SPECIES 
REFERRED TO THEIR SEVERAL GENERA. 
BY 
GEORGE ROBERT GRAY, F.L.S. 
SENIOR ASSISTANT OF THE NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM ; 
CORRESPOXDING MEMBER OF THE ROY-VL ACADE3IY OF SCIENCES OF TURIX ; OF THE liU'ERIAL AXD ROYAL ACADEMY OF GEORGOFILI OF FLORENCE ; 
OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE, NATURAL HISTORY, AND USEFUL ARTS OF LYON; OF THE SOCIETY OF THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OF STRASBOURG; 
OF THE LINN.E.VN SOCIETY OF LYON ; OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, U. S. ; 
HONORARY M£}IBER OF THE NATLTJAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF HESSE DARMSTADT ; ETC. ETC. 
AUTHOR OF 
" A LIST OF THE GENERA OF BIRDS," SEVERAL ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS, ETC. 
ILLUSTRATED BY 
DAVID AYILLIAM MITCHELL, B.A. F.L.S. 
SECRETARY TO THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; 
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROY.U, ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMSTERDAM, AND OF 
SEVERAL LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
IX THREE VOLUMES. 
VOL. II. 
1844—1849. 
LONDON: 
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, 
PATERNOSTER-ROW. 
'"1849. 
